Machine for setting lacing-hooks.



D. W. COLBY.

MACHINE FOR SETTING LACING HOOKS.

APPLICATION FILED AUG.I6. I909.

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D. W. COLBY. MACHINE FOR SETTING LACING HOOKS. APPLICATION FILED AUG.I6. 1909.

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MACHINE FOR SETTING LACING HOOKS.

APPLICATION FILED AUG.16. I909.

Patented May 11, 1915.

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LXSQAQQQ TED STATES PATENT DANIEL W. COLBY, 0F BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO UNITED SHOE MACHINERY COMPANY, OF PATERSON, NEW JERSEY, A CORPORATION OF NEW JERSEY.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 11, 13155 Application filed August 16, 1909. Serial No. 513,078.

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, DANIEL W. COLBY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain Tmprovements in Machines for Setting Lacing- Hooks, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification, like reference characters on the drawings indicating like parts in the several figures.

This invention relates to machines for setting fasteners, such as eyelets, lacing hooks, rivets, or the like, and more particularly to machines for setting lacing hooks in the quarters of boots and shoes, although certain features of the invention are also applicable to machines for setting other forms of fasteners.

One important feature of the present 1nvention lies in the construction and arrangement of the carrier and anvil to which the hooks are delivered, upon which they are set and from which they must be fed after the setting operation.

Heretofore in many hook setting machines a vertically movable carrier has been provided with a transversely movable anvil plate arranged to be moved out of engagement with the throat of a hook after the hook has been set in the work.

lVith a view to simplifying this portion of the machine and insuring positive handling and rapid setting of the hooks the present invention contemplates the provision of a hook setting machine of such construction that hooks may be delivered to an anvil plate having no transverse motion, set in the work and then carried off the anvil plate by the feeding movement of the work.

The work may be fed by any suitable intermittently operating feeding means, it being essential only that it shall be moved to the setting position, remain stationary during the setting operation and be fed for-- ward at the proper time in the cycle of operations of the machine. For simplicity it has been found advantageous to utilize the punch for feeding the work though as already intimated it is within the scope of the invention to provide a separate feeding device in case it should be found expedient to omit the punch from the machine. In the preferred embodiment, however, the machine is provided with a punch which is adapted to perforate the work at one side of the setting position and then after slightly releasing its pressure on the cutting block feed the stock into alinement with the setting devices. For varying the spacing between successive hooks the extent of the transverse feeding movement of the punch may be varied and to this end mechanism similar to that disclosed in United States Patent No. 603,023, granted April 26, 1898, to S. Field, may be employed to a good ad vantage.

In a preferred embodiment of the invention, the successive hooks are delivered to a carrier and held during the setting operation with their barrels uppermost by an anvil plate which engages the throat of the hook. An upsetting die which cooperates with the carrier to clench the hooks is mounted above the carrier and during the setting operation occupies a position in alinement with the carrier. It is desirable that the upsetting die shall occupy this position at the proper time and partake of vertical movement in cooperation with the carrier to set the hook. In order to avoid interference with the punch as the latter makes its transverse feeding movement the upsetting die may be constructed to move transversely under the actuation of the punch. Such a die forms the subject matter of United States Patent No. 7 07,644, granted August 26, 1902, to F. A. Rumney.

*While the upsetting die is constructed in accordance with the patent cited above its manner of use in the present combination is novel and constitutes an important feature of the present invention.

Other features of the invention are disclosed herein but not claimed as they constitute in part the subject-matter of my copending application Serial No. 589,982 filed October 31, 1910, which is a continuation of the present application as to all common subj cot-matter.

The features and advantages above set forth and others incident to the invention will be best understood and appreciated in connection with the following description of a machine constructed and operating in accordance with my invention, together with the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a side elevation of a machine for setting hooks; Fig. 2 is a front elevation of the machine having a portion brokenv away to disclose the mechanism for starting and stopping the separator; Fig. 3 is a plan View of the machine with the hopper removed; Fig. 4 is a view in perspective showing the setting devices, the work table and presser foot being broken away for the sake of clearness; Figs. 5 to 8 illustrate successive steps in the punching, feeding and hook setting operations; Fig. 9 is a plan View of the hook transferring device.

Referring to Fig. 1 of the drawings, 2 designates the frame of the machine in which are formed journals for the main shaft 4 which is provided at its rear end with a loose pulley 5 and suitable clutch mechanism for clutching and unclutching the pulley and shaft. The clutch comprises a friction member 6 keyed or otherwise nonrotatably connected with the shaft and constructed and arranged to engage, either the pulley 5, for driving the machine, or a brake surface formed on part of the fixed frame, for stopping the machine. Any desired mechanism of the type commonly used with clutches of this kind may be provided, whereby the operator is enabled to shift the friction member of the clutch for starting and stopping the machine. A clutch of the type above discussed provided with a suitable shifting mechanism is disclosed in United States Patent No. 672,056, granted April 16, 1901, to J. F. Davey and S. W. Ladd, to which reference may be had for further details of this portion of the machine.

The frame 2 of the machine is provided with vertically disposed bearings in which is journaled the spindle or stud 30 provided at its upper end with a head 32 in which is pivoted, on the pin 34, the punch lever 36.

The tubular punch 37 is adjustably mounted in the forward end of the punch lever 36, being retained within the head of the lever by a set screw 38. Surrounding the punch 37 and threaded into the lower side of the punch lever 36 is the sleeve or collar 39 which acts as a support for the upsetting die. The collar 39 is provided with a check nut and may be adjusted with respect to the lever 36 and independently of the punch 37 by means of a spanner after the check nut has been loosened.

The rear end 40 of the punch lever 36 projects through a wide yoke 42 in the upper end of a vertically movable bar 43, mounted in bearings at the rear of the frame. The yoke is shaped to permit a transverse motion of the end 40 of the lever 36 as the latter is oscillated laterally with the stud 30as a center. Extending rearwardly from the bar 43 is an arm 44 carrying a vertical guide pin 45 which reciprocates in a hole in the machine frame and serves tokeep the yoke and bar 43 from turning-during the operation of the machine.

In order to reciprocate the bar and yoke for actuating the punch lever 36 a cam roll is mounted on the lower end ofthe bar 43 and engages an endless cam groove in the face of disk 8 which is rigidly mounted on the shaft 4, whereby, on rotation of the shaft 4, the punch lever 36 is oscillated vertically for punching the stock and setting hooks.

In order to oscillate the punch lever 36 transversely for feeding the work there is provided another cam 9 upon the main shaft which acts upon a roll 10 carried by the lower arm 11 of a vertical rock shaft which at its upper end is provided with the arm 12 extending at approximately right angles with the arm 11 as shown in Figs. 1 and 3. The arm 12 is connected through the link 13 with a slideway 14, pivoted on a vertically reciprocating bar 43. The head 32 of the stud 30 is extended outwardly in two bars 46 to form upwardly extending ears or guides 47 (see Fig. 1), for the punch lever 36 and below the bars is a slide 48, which has a portion extending down into the. slot in the slideway 14 and also a portion extending upwardly between the two bars. It will be seen that when the arm 11 is oscillated by the cam 9, the arm 12, through the link 13, will oscillate the slideway 14 and, through the medium of the slide 48, oscillate the punch lever 36 on the stud 30.

The slide 48 is connected by a link 50 with a lever 51 pivoted to turn about the vertical bar 43. When the lever 51 is rocked about the bar to the left (Fig. 3), it will, through the link '50, force the slide 48 awayfrom its center of oscillation and will cause it tc traverse a relatively greater distance for a given angular motion of the slideway. The increased motion of the slide 48 will be transmitted to the punch lever 36 at a point correspondingly nearer to the center of oscillation of the punch lever the extent of whose transverse oscillation will be thus increased. By moving the lever 51 toward the right the punch lever will be caused to traverse a correspondingly shorter distance and the spacing of the hooks thus made-less. In order to maintain the lever 51 in any desired position the segment plate 52 is provided With holes 53 for the reception of stop pins and a spring 54 extending between thelever and a stud on the frame of the machine serves to hold the lever always against one of the stop pins.

A work table 16 is mounted on the forl opening is also provided in the table to permit the carrier 18 to pass up through the table for the setting operation. At the rear of the setting position, relative to the direction of feed, a depression is formed in the surface of the table, as shown in Fig. 8, to allow room for the heads of the clenched hooks as the work is fed across the table.

Mounted for vertical reciprocation below the table 16 in bearings 20 formed in the forward part of the frame 2 is the bar 21 carrying the cam roll 23 which engages the cam track 24 in the disk 25 mounted on the forward end of the shaft 4. The bar 21 has at its upper end the squared hook carrier 18 on the upper end of which is the lower set or anvil-plate 26 slotted on its inner edge and forming with the plate 27 (see Fig. 9) a continuation of the raceway when the carrier is at its lower position. One side of the carrier 18 is recessed for the reception of the bill of a hook and the carrier is also provided with an axially extending recess containing a spring actuated clamp 28 shaped to engage the head of a hook and hold the same steady on the anvil-plate during the setting operation.

The raceway 60 is constructed and arranged to receive hooks from the hopper and deliver them successively to the anvil-plate 26 with their barrels uppermost. To this end the raceway is given a quarter turn and passes below the work table 16, the end of the raceway being located at the proper point to deliver hooks to the anvil-plate when the carrier is in its lowest position.

For the purpose of retaining the hooks upon the raceway until the proper time for delivering them to the carrier and anvilplate, the end of the raceway is recessed below its upper surface, and as shown in Figs. 4: and 9, for the reception of a spring actuated stop 62. The inner end 63 of the stop extends upwardly through a slot in the surface of the raceway and normally stands in the path of hooks upon the raceway. The means for transferring successive hooks past the stop 62 and delivering them to the anvilplate 26, comprise a slide bar 65, mounted for reciprocation at right angles to the raceway in a guideway 67 and having a wedge shaped plate 66 upon its forward end. The slide bar is connected by a short link 68 which has an adjustable connection with the upper end of a cam lever 69 which is oscillated by the cam 70 on the main shaft. When the carrier is in its lower, or hook receiving position, the wedge shaped plate 66 is advanced across the raceway and by its inclined surface forces a hook past the stop 62 and on to the anvil-plate 26 where the head of the hook is engaged by the clamp 28.

The upsetting die is located on the lower side of a slotted arm 81 formed integral with a sleeve 82 which is journaled on a vertical spindle 83 carried by the bracket 84:. The bracket 84: is formed on an annular standard 85 which is clamped to or otherwise Inade rigid with the machine frame. The sleeve and die carrying arms 81 are normally maintained in alinement with the carrier 18 and also in an elevated position, as shown in Fig. 4, by a spring encircling the spindle 83.

In order to insure that the upsetting die 80 shall assume a normal position in alinement with the carrier 18, the sleeve 82 is provided with a rearwardly extending arm 86 (see Fig. 8) carrying an adjustable stop adapted to bear against the vertical post of the bracket 84. By adjustment of this stop the normal lateral position of the die may be adjusted. When the punch lever 36 is moved transversely to feed the work the sleeve 39 comes in contact with the arm 81 and pushes it to one side into the position shown in Fig. 6. At the end of the feeding movement the punch lever is elevated slightly allowing the die carrying arm 81 to move back into alinement with carrier 18, the punch entering the slot in the upper side of the arm while the end of the sleeve 89 bears against the surface of the arm, as shown in Fig. 7. As the setting operation takes place the punch lever moves downwardly carrying below it and reinforcing the upper die which coiiperates with the anvil-plate 18 to set the hook.

A presser foot 7 5 is mounted upon the upper end of a vertically slidable rod 76 and under the actuation of the spring shown in Fig. 1 normally holds the work upon the work table 16. A vertically sliding pin 7 7 carried by a short arm extending rearwardly from the rod 76 serves to prevent turning of the presser foot during the operation of the machine. In order to raise the presser foot intermittently to permit the feeding movement of the work to take place, a lever 74, adapted to engage the end of the rod 76, is pivoted to the base of the machine and a portion thereof stands in the path of a roll 79 mounted on the face of the cam disk 70, whereby the rod 7 6 and presser foot are intermittently raised once during each revolution of the main shaft. In order to raise the presser foot manually for placing the work in the machine a treadle rod 90 is connected with the outer end of the lever and may be actuated by a treadle, not shown. I

The hopper, comprising a base 100 and a cylindrical casing 101, is inclined toward the setting devices and mounted at the rear and above the machine upon the bracket 102 which is secured to the framework by means of the laterally extending studs 103 and 104. An auxiliary bracket 105, secured to the bracket 102, furnishes bearings for the shaft 107 which has on one end the pulley 108 and isalso provided with a worm 109. The worm 109 meshes with the spiral gear 106 upon the lower end of the shaft 111 which is journaled in the end of the bracket 102 and extends upwardly into the hopper, being provided with a collar 112 formed integral, or otherwise made rigid therewith, and having also a spring washer and friction disk 113 at its upper end. Intermediate the collar and friction disk is a sleeve 114 carrying the laterally extending angular arm 115, which at its outer end extends downwardly and, by means of a stud, is loosely connected with the separator, which preferably comprises a recessed ring 120. The degree of friction between the sleeve 114 and the shaft 111 may be adjusted by a nut on the end of the shaft, as shown in Fig. 1.

The separator ring is substantially rectangular in cross-section with a beveled inner surface, as shown in Fig. 1, and is provided at suitable intervals with recesses extending from its upper to its lower side and opening into the interior of the ring to receive the barrels of the hooks, and adjacent each recess is inserted a picker blade 122 and a guide piece 123. The blade and guide piece are formed of flat stock and are positioned tangent, at the delivery point of the blade 122, to a circle having its center at the axis of the hopper and separator ring. The blade 122 extends above the surface of the ring, in order to engage the hooks, and downwardly through the ring whereby the hooks within the recesses are maintained always in a'proper position to slide off on the upper end of the raceway. The separator is rotated with the blades 122 in advance and in passing through the mass of hooks which are contained in bulk in the hopper, these blades will engage with the throat of such hooks as happen to be in a proper position. As the ring continues to rotate hooks slide rearwardly along the edge of blade 122 and are guided downwardly into the pockets of separator ring 120 by the guide piece 123 which engages the back of a hook. The inclined or beveled inner surface of the separator ring lies approximately horizontally at the lower side of the hopper and in this position allows the hooks to pass readily to the upper surface of the ring where they may enter the recesses 121. This feature in sures almost complete removal of the hooks from the hopper whereas with a ring of rectangular cross-section having an unbeveled inner surface the removal of the last fifty or sixty eyelets is difficult to accomplish. After the hooks have passeddown through the ring to the bottom of the hopper they are conveyed in the recesses thereof until the raceway is reached. The upper end of the raceway 60 extends for a short distance tangentially with respect to the hopper, at the same radialdistance fromthe axis thereof as the'blades 122, and then passes down wardly through an opening in the bottom of the hopper.

The point of connection of'the raceway with the bottom of the hopper is about 45 from the-highest point of the hopper bottom.

In operation the hooks carried in the re-,

cesses of the ring 120 engage the upper end of the raceway when this point is reached and slide down by gravity to the stop 62.

The bottom of the hopper is provided with an annular shoulder which receives the lower edge of the hopper casing 101 through which retaining screws maybe inserted for securing the bottom and easing together. The casing of the hopper vat its lower side is provided with a pivoted latch bar 135 and a gate 136 whereby the contents of the hopper'may be quickly emptied in changing from one style of hook to another and an aperture 137 is formed in the cover of the casing through which hooks may be poured in bulk for filling the hopper.

A small hand wheel 138 is provided on the end of shaft 112 outside the hopper casing whereby the separator may be moved back and forth to dislodge an obstructing hook from the throat of the raceway in the event of such obstruction. The frictional connec- 108 and the separator are driven by the belt 7 but the following mechanism is provided for stopping the operation of the separator when desired. An idle pulley 140'is mount ed on a pivoted arm 141 which moves adj acent to a toothed sector 142 and may be maintained in any desired adjusted position by means of a spring actuated detent 143 arranged to cooperate with said sector. When it is desired to put the separator in operation the arm 141 is moved toward the rlght, as shown in Fig. 2, whereupon sufficient tension is exerted by the belt 110 to drive the separator. In order to stop the I separator the arm 141 is moved toward the left and the belt allowed to driving pulley 110.

With the mechanism just described it will be apparent that the separator may be started while the machine as a whole is at rest and the raceway supplied with hooks before the setting devices are put in operation, or the separator may be stopped while slip on the the setting devices are operating in caseit is found that an oversupply of hooks is being delivered.

The operation of the machine will readily be understood in connection with Figs. 5 to 8 of the drawing which represent various steps in the cycle of the machine. The clutch and brake mechanism are arranged to stop the machine with the punch lever 36 in its extreme right hand position and with the punch elevated above the cutting block, as shown in Fig. 5. When the main shaft is rotated the punch descends and punches a hole in the work, the punchings passing up through the hollow center of the punch. After raising slightly to release the pressure on the cutting block, but being still in engagement with the work, the punch moves laterally, displacing the die carrying arm 81 to the left, and feeding the work to a position wherein the hole just punched is in alinement with the carrier 18. The presser foot, as will be understood, is lifted during the feeding operation to release the work. If there is no work in the machine but if, for any reason, there should be a hook on the anvil-plate 26 during this operation, the punch 38, by its lateral movement, carries such hook ofi' the anvil-plate. At the completion of the feeding operation, the carrier 18 which has remained in its elevated position, is lowered to its hook-receiving position, as shown in Fig. 7. At the same time the punch is lifted just high enough to allow the die carrying arm 81 to move to the right under the actuation of the spring encircling the spindle 83 into alinement with the carrier, the punch entering the slot in the upper surface of the arm and the sleeve 39 bearing upon the hardened bushing surrounding the slot. While the carrier is in its lower position the transferring plate 66 advances, forces a single hook past the stop 62 and moves it on the anvllplate 26 where it is engaged by the sprlng clamp 28. The setting operatlon 1s accomplished by the upward movement of the carrier 18 with the hook, and a downward movement of the punch 'lever 86 carrying below it the upsetting die 80. Fig. 8 shows these elements in the setting position. After the hook has been set the punch moves back to its initial position and in its succeedlng feeding movement the work is moved again to the left, drawing the clenched hook off from the anvil-plate and leaving the carrier free to descend at the proper point in the cycle of operation.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States is 1. A machine of the class described having, in combination, hook delivering means, hook setting devices including a carrier for receiving a hook from the delivering means and moving it into setting position, and a punch acting automatically to disengage a clenched hook from the carrier, said punch also acting to feed the work a distance equal to the distance desired between two consecutive hooks.

2. A machine of the class described, comprising an upsetting die, a carrier for receiving and setting a hook in cooperation with said upsetting die, means for delivering hooks to said carrier, and feeding means arranged for engaging the work at one side of a clenched hook and feeding the work and thereby moving the clenched hook out of the carrier.

3. A machine of the class described, comprising a carrier, having a slotted anvilplate, means for delivering successive hooks to said anvil-plate, an upsetting die cooperating with said anvil-plate to set a hook, and work feeding means constructed and arranged to engage the work at one side of a clenched hook for feeding the work and thereby moving the hook off the anvil-plate.

4. A machine of the class described, comprising an anvil-plate, means for delivering successive hooks to said anvil-plate in a direction substantially parallel to the edge of the work, and means for feeding hooks off said plate in a direction opposite to that from which they were delivered to the plate.

5. A machine of the class described, comprising a vertically movable carrier, means for delivering hooks to said carrier in its lower position from one side of the carrier, an upsetting die cooperating with said carrier to set a hook when the carrier is in an elevated position, and means for feeding the clenched hook out of said carrier in such elevated position upon the same side that it was received.

6. A machine of the class described, comprising a movable carrier, means for delivering hooks to said carrier in one position thereof, an upsetting die cooperating with said carrier to set a hook when the carrier is in another position, and means acting on the work independently of the clenched hook for feeding the hook out of said carrier in substantially its second position.

7 A machine of the class described, comprising an upsetting die, a vertically movable carrier, means for lowering said carrier to receive a hook, and elevating the carrier for setting a hook in cooperation with said upsetting die, and work feeding means separate from the carrier for feeding the work while the carrier is at rest and thereby moving a clenched hook out of said carrier in an elevated position of the carrier.

8. A machine of the class described, comprising a work supporting table, a carrier movable from a hook receiving position below said table to a hook setting position in substantially the plane of said table, means for deliveringsuccessive hooksto the carrier in its lower position, and means for feeding the work and thereby moving a clenched hook out of the carrier when the to receive the bill of a hook and provided with an anvil-plate for receiving the throat of a hook, a cooperating upsetting die, means for actuating said carrier and upsetting die for setting a hook, and feeding means constructed and arranged to engage the work at one side of the clenched hook and being movable to feed the work in a direction substantially parallel with its edge and at the same time to move the bill of a clenched hook out of said recess.

11. A machine of the class vdescribed, comprising an upsetting die, a carrier for re ceiving and setting hooks in cooperation with said upsetting die, means for delivering hooks to said carrier, and a punch operating independently of the upsetting die for punching and feeding the work and thereby moving a clenched hook out of the carrier.

12. A machine of the class described, comprising a carrier, means for delivering successive hooks to said carrier, and a punch movable vertically for punching the work and laterally for feeding the work, the carrier having an opening extending in the direction of the feeding movement .to permit a clenched hook to be drawn out by the feeding movement of the work.

13. A machine of the'class described, comprising an upsetting die, a carrier, a yielding hook clamp mounted .upon the carrier, meansfor delivering successive hooks to said carrier whereon they are positioned by said yielding clamp, and meansrfor feeding the.

work after a hook is set in such a direction as to position it properly to receive thesub- .remove an unset hook-from said carrier.

15. A hook setting machine having, in combination, an upsetting die mounted 'for vertical and lateral movement, a stationary raceway, a hook carrier arrangedto reciprocate from hook receiving position adjacent to the raceway to setting position adjacent to the upsetting die, and a punch arranged at rest in its setting position and simultaneously to move the upsetting die lnto moperative position.

16. A hook setting machine having, in combination, a reciprocatory hook carrier,

an upsetting die normally occupying a posi- '70 to feed the Work while the carrier remains tion in alinement with the hook carrier, and

a punch arranged for lateral movement to carry the previously clenched hook out of the carrier and feed the work into position to receive the subsequent hook, the upsetting die being displaced by the punch during this operation.

17. A hook setting machine, having, in

combination, a raceway, a hook holder or carrier adjacent to the end of the raceway, means to deliver hooks to the carrier from thevraceway, an upsetting die, means for moving the carrier to set the hook, andv means independent of the carrier for feeding the work relatively to the carrier after the hook has been set, thereby removing the clenched hook from'the carrier and advancing the work into position for a subsequent setting operation, substantially as described.

18. A hook setting machine, having, in

combination, a raceway, a hook holder or carrier movable to a hook receiving position adjacent the end of the raceway, means to the carrier to set the hook, and a punch to remove the hook from the carrier by a move ment in the direction of feed after'the hook has been set and simultaneously advancethe work to position for a subsequent. setting operation, substantially as described. sequent hook and to move a clenched hook 20. A hook setting machinefhaving, in combination, means for setting hooks including a hook holder or carrier, a raceway, means to deliver a hook from the raceway to the carrier, and means acting upon the work at a point remote from the clenched hook to remove the hook from the carrier after it has been set, one of said meansacting to move the hook substantially in the directionof the line of feed, and the other in the opposite direction, substantially as de- 21. A hook setting machine, having, in combination, setting devices including an upsetting die, and a hook holding or carrying flange extending parallel to the line of feed, means for delivering a hook sideWise to said flange before the setting operation, and means independent of the upsetting die for removing the hook sideWise from said flange after the setting operation, substantially as described.

22. A machine of the class described, comprising a hook carrier, a cooperating upsetting die movable toward said carrier for setting a hook, means for moving said upsetting die away from said carrier to release the clenched hook, and Work feeding means separate from the hook carrier.

23. A machine of the class described, comprising a hook carrier, a cooperating upsetting die, means for actuating said carrier and upsetting die for setting a hook, means for moving said upsetting die to a position for releasing the clenched hook, an independent device for feeding the Work While the carrier remains in its hook setting position, and means for moving said hook carrier after the feeding operation.

24. A machine of the class described, comprising a hook carrier, a movable upsetting die, means for delivering a hook to said hook carrier, means for moving said carrier for setting hooks in cooperation with said upsetting die, an independent Work feeding device, and means for moving said upsetting die while the hook carrier remains at rest to a position for releasing said clenched hook and permitting the feed to take place While the carrier remains in its hook setting position.

25. A machine of the class described, comprising a Work supporting table, a movable hook carrier cooperating in one position to form with said table a Work supporting surface lying in a single plane, and a device for feeding the Work While said carrier remains at rest in such position.

26. A machine of the class described, comprising a Work supporting table, a movable hook carrier and an upsetting die, said hook carrier cooperating in its hook setting position to form with said table a Work supporting surface lying in a single plane, means for moving said upsetting die to release the clenched hook, and a device for feeding the Work While said carrier remains at rest in its setting position.

27. A hook setting machine having, in combination, a reciprocating hook carrier having a hook-retaining flange, means for delivering a hook to said carrier, the clenched hook being subsequently Withdrawn therefrom While the carrier is at rest, an upsetting die located normally in alinement With said carrier and having provision permitting transverse movement to an inoperative position and a punch constructed and arranged to punch and feed the Work.

In testimony whereof I have Signed my name to this specification in the presence of tWo subscribing Witnesses.

DANIEL W. COLBY.

WVitnesses:

HERBERT WV. KENWAY, FREDERICK L. EDMANDS.

copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. O.

Correction in Letters Patent No. 1,139,400.

It is hereby certified that in Letters Patent No. 1,139,400, granted May 11,

1915, upon the application of Daniel VVfColby, of Boston, Massachusetts, for an improvement in Machines for Setting Lacing-Hooks, an error appears in the printed specification requiring correction as follows: Page 3, lines 67-68, for the Word annular read angular; and that the said Letters Patent should be read with this correction therein that the same may conform to the record of the case in the Patent Office.

Signed and sealed this 11th day of January, A. D., 1916.

[SEAL] J. T. NEWTON,

Acting Commissioner of Patents. Cl. 218-17. 

